This week, Whitney, Carrie, and Paige discuss the 2017 collection of short stories Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. If you would like to read Her Body and Other Parties before listening to the podcast, it can be found at your local bookstore, on Audible and here: https://cutt.ly/5n0yjXz

Content Warnings: rape, violence towards women, abuse, assault, sexual assault, labor rape, pregnancy and birth, the pandemic, mental health, codependency, pedophilia, child abuse, violence towards black children, white apathy, bariatric surgery, body image, fatphobia, sex work, gaslighting, explicit language

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Theme music by our very own Paige Scott.

Your hosts are Whitney Claytor, Carrie McConnell, and Paige Scott.